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Holy Fucking God, I love this movie. Love it. Love. It. I have not had so much fun in a movie theater in ages. It had fun music, awesome gunfight sequences, fun characters, and just enough gruesome physical torture inflicted on one of said characters to satisfy whatever twisted part of me it is that gets such a kick out of reading/watching painful stuff.
El Mariachi was coolness incarnate, and Sands was obnoxiousness incarnate, and both were incredibly entertaining to watch (Sands most of all, but the mariachi band composed entirely of hit men was just such a cool concept that I couldn’t help loving it. I think I may have actually shrieked with glee when they busted out the remote-controlled guitarcase-bomb). It probably helped that I’ve always had a soft spot for violent westerns, as well as for those espionage/mafia type movies where everyone is double-crossing everyone else.
And the fight sequence where the blinded Sands targets the two gunmen by the sound of their laughter, footsteps, whimpers, ect, is one of the coolest pieces of shooting I’ve seen in a long time. Anyone else see a serious fanfic possibility in the fact that El Mariachi jingles every time he takes a step? They made such a point of it in the movie that I was convinced he would run into Sands post-eye gouging, and was slightly disappointed that he never did.
I have to say, that and the fact that you never found out who the hell Sands was talking to all the time on that cell phone were the only nitpicks I had. *grins* I liked the drunk mariachi hit man too, especially in that scene at the end when he had all the money stuffed in his clothing.
And I can state without any doubt that Johnny Depp can manage to be unimaginably sexy even when his entire face is a mask of blood and his eyes are gone. They may need to do scientific research on this phenomenon.
El Mariachi was coolness incarnate, and Sands was obnoxiousness incarnate, and both were incredibly entertaining to watch (Sands most of all, but the mariachi band composed entirely of hit men was just such a cool concept that I couldn’t help loving it. I think I may have actually shrieked with glee when they busted out the remote-controlled guitarcase-bomb). It probably helped that I’ve always had a soft spot for violent westerns, as well as for those espionage/mafia type movies where everyone is double-crossing everyone else.
And the fight sequence where the blinded Sands targets the two gunmen by the sound of their laughter, footsteps, whimpers, ect, is one of the coolest pieces of shooting I’ve seen in a long time. Anyone else see a serious fanfic possibility in the fact that El Mariachi jingles every time he takes a step? They made such a point of it in the movie that I was convinced he would run into Sands post-eye gouging, and was slightly disappointed that he never did.
I have to say, that and the fact that you never found out who the hell Sands was talking to all the time on that cell phone were the only nitpicks I had. *grins* I liked the drunk mariachi hit man too, especially in that scene at the end when he had all the money stuffed in his clothing.
And I can state without any doubt that Johnny Depp can manage to be unimaginably sexy even when his entire face is a mask of blood and his eyes are gone. They may need to do scientific research on this phenomenon.